From the GATW Archives: SXSW 2011 Video Interview: WIN WIN writer/director Tom McCarthy and actor Alex Shaffer

Talking to Tom McCarthy is a real treat. We first spoke back in 2007 for his second feature, THE VISITOR, which became one of my top 10 films of that year. Fun fact: McCarthy and actor Richard Jenkins were my first on-camera 1:1 interview and I made the mistake of telling them that prior to the interview, which led to McCarthy having a little fun with it.

As you probably (most definitely if you’re a GATW regular) see, McCarthy’s back with a new film, WIN WIN, which opened just a few days ago. If you look a few posts below, you’ll see my interview with the two of the stars in the film, Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan. Here I talk to McCarthy and newcomer Alex Shaffer. In the film Shaffer plays a wrestler but only a few may know that Shaffer is actually a champion wrestler in real life.

Check out the video interview after the break, and make sure to watch to the very end where McCarthy tells me a very nice and unexpected surprise.

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From the GATW Archives: SXSW 2011 Video Interview: WIN WIN actors Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan

Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan have grown to become two of my favorite people to watch on screen. They’re funny, awkward, and don’t really need to say much for me to understand what they’re feeling. I spoke with the duo last week at SXSW about their recent performances as a struggling married couple in Tom McCarthy’s very wonderful third feature, WIN WIN. It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t a tad bit nervous; it’s a bit difficult to keep composure around two people you deeply admire.

Check out the quick interview after the break; Giamatti and Ryan talk about how they got involved with WIN WIN, and Giamatti talks a little more about his real life persona channeling his fictional character, Mike Flaherty.

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